Prosecutor: ‘Native Mob’ Gang Used Violence

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jurors are hearing closing arguments in the racketeering trial of three members of an American Indian gang known for terrorizing people in the Upper Midwest.

Wakinyon Wakan McArthur — an alleged leader of the Twin Cities-based Native Mob — and two alleged Native Mob “soldiers,” Anthony Francis Cree and William Earl Morris, are accused of being part of a criminal enterprise.

Winter says McArthur and his two co-defendants resorted to violence to uphold the gang’s reputation.

But McArthur’s attorney, Frederick Goetz, argued that the government is over-reaching. Goetz says while members of the Native Mob may have committed individual crimes, there is no evidence of racketeering.